About.com

First month using Sprinks...

[mona]

Hello, all. After having no luck contacting an About guide, I signed up with Sprinks.

I want to share some thoughts on it. I am also curious if anyone has been using them and what they think.

The good-
Not a whole lot of traffic yet, but with most of my keywords only being .01, I can't complain. Some keywords that are costing well over a dollar at GoTo are less than .10 here.

From what I've heard, the majority of traffic comes from the sponsered links and those are more expensive. I've just increased my bids on a few of them to move up and see what happens.

The bad-
I have trouble accessing my account. That's obviously very frustrating. At times I simply can't get in, at other times it will take several minutes.

Also, the reports are difficult to read.
All the information is sorta bunched together.

Overall, I think it is worth the effort and cost, though.

Mona

[Mike_Mackin]

>I have trouble accessing my account. That's obviously very frustrating

You can say that again :(
The cookie thing makes it too difficult to manage mulitple accounts and that is what we do.

>the majority of traffic comes from the sponsered links...
The traffic JUMPS big time

[skipper]

I started using Sprinks about 3 weeks ago. Not a lot of traffic, but as pointed out above, it costs about 3rd for many keywords as GoTo. And I should think most of what you get from About.com pages is pretty targeted and serious (ie: people truly interested in buying something).

[digitalgirl]

Been using it for a long while now. I am not very happy with it really. Signing in is a pain, ah, the whole thing is a pain!

I may just give up on it soon.

DigitalGiRl

[2_much]

I've wondered about this for a while but never found a definitive answer.

Does anyone know if paying for sprinks gives you additional link popularity points, the same as if you were listed in About?